How To Install yum-cron on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron
on CentOS 7.
What is yum-cron
These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install yum-cron
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-cron.
Install yum-cron on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install yum-cron
using yum
by running the following command:
Install yum-cron on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install yum-cron
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall yum-cron on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yum-cron
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.